Archive: https://archive.today/ZMWvc From the post: >>For 40 years it has been lying forgotten in a drawer – but a rediscovered fossil has turned out to be the first dinosaur bone ever found in Antarctica. The specimen was originally found on an expedition in 1985 but the team who unearthed it were not sure what it was. It has spent the last four decades stored away in the geology collection of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in Cambridge. But now, after close analysis by palaeontologists, it has been confirmed as a tail bone from a titanosaur – a group that included the largest animals to ever walk the Earth. The fossil is the only one from the continent to be found in a rock layer known as the Santa Marta Formation, dating back to the Late Cretaceous about 82 million years ago.